Captain Swan - Set My Soul On Fire

Chapter 1

Being the principal's son is not all it's cracked up to be.

His classmates tell him all the time, it must be nice to be the principal's son. They think it's all unicorns and rainbows, they think it's why he's never been in detention when the real reason is that he's forced to be a role model to his fellow classmates. Since Brennan Jones is not only the principal but a strict father who runs a very tight ship, both at school and at home, he sets high standards and has even higher expectations of his two sons. Killian's actually surprised he's made it three years in high school without being in detention because it feels like everything he does at home is wrong. He's constantly reminded his brother was captain of the football team and had straight A's when he was in high school, while Killian is only a straight-A student. That's right, just a straight-A student. He's often lectured rather than praised. Being the principal's son has its perks, but it feels more like a prison sentence than a privilege. Today is a good example of this.

He's currently sitting in the administrative office waiting for the new student he's supposed to show around the school and around town. His father is already chummy with her parents and boasts to his sons about how her mother is an elementary school teacher and her father is the new Pastor at Living Hope Community Church, where Brennan attends every Sunday without fail. While discussing the new girl's enrollment at the high school, her parents asked the principal if he knew anyone who would be interested in showing their daughter around. Since Killian is in the same grade as she is and has the same classes, Brennan volunteered him.

So now he's endowed with the task, and his father wants her to make her feel at home, show her the ropes, show her where the good places to eat are and the good crowds to hang out with. He wants her experience at Storybrooke High School to be an enjoyable one, and apparently Killian's experience to be an insufferable one. Sound like a privilege to you?

He should feel flattered his father saw fit to have him show the pastor's daughter around, but it only reminds Killian that he's tried so hard to impress his father, he may be missing out on some of the finer aspects of high school. But this is senior year—his most important year of high school.

He's easily made straight A's in the past three years, but that didn't matter to him. He wants to be a pilot and needs flying hours to earn his commercial pilot's license, not a flashy college degree. Getting into a prestigious university is what his father wants for him; it's not what Killian wants or even needs. So he's not worried about getting into a good college; he knows he can do that no problem, anyway. But he's always been the golden boy, the teacher's pet, the principal's son who never gets in trouble. He's seventeen and still a virgin; perhaps it's time he changed that. It's his senior year, but it's only the beginning, so perhaps it's not too late to get into some sort of trouble.

Killian is towed from his thoughts as his phone buzzes in his pocket. He pulls out the device and sees a text from his best friend.

Robin: Good luck with the new girl.

Killian: More like bad luck. This feels like punishment.

Robin: Why? Is she ugly?

Killian: Haven't met her yet. Just hate being the one always picked for these things.

Robin: Send me a pic if she's hot.

Robin: That was Will. He already got his phone confiscated for blowing a spitball at the chalkboard, and the class hasn't even begun yet lol.

Killian chuckles and is kind of jealous he wasn't there to see it.

Killian: Why am I not surprised?